Coontail
| Scientific Name: | Ceratophyllum demersum |
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NOTES: Aquatic plant.
| Scientific Name: | Ceratophyllum demersum |
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| Genus species: | Ceratophyllum demersum | |||||||||||
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| Common Name: | Coontail | |||||||||||
| Family Name: | Ceratophyllaceae 
Aquatic perennial herbs, rootless and suspended below the water surface; leaves whorled, sessile, divided; flowers unisexual, solitary in leaf axils, plants monoecious; fruit an achene with an apical spinelike beak; family now thought to represent an ancient angiosperm lineage possibly related to some of the earliest flowering plants. | |||||||||||
| Seed Type: | Angiosperm | |||||||||||
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Native | |||||||||||
| Category: | Aquatic | |||||||||||
| Identified by: | M. Becus | |||||||||||
| Months in Bloom: The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicate when the plant has been observed blooming. | ||||||||||||
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